Main Topics: - Economics of Services and Sustainable Development - Management of Services and Sustainable Development - Sectoral Approaches

Topics: - Climate change and energy - Regional and rural development, structural funds - Sustainable development strategies at various levels of government - RTD for sustainable development - Sustainable consumption and production - Environmental resources and biodiversity - Gender and diversity...

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is organizing BuildingEnergy08, the Northeast's 33rd premier conference and trade show for renewable energy, green building, and climate change professionals. The conference presents the opportunities, technologies and practices shaping the...

ABARE will release at Outlook 2008 the march issue of australian commodities, with projections to 2012-13 for australia’s key agricultural and natural resource commodities. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The web site is no longer available.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together people active in modelling bio-energy with the help of agricultural-economic models to allow for an exchange of ideas and to support and advise the NaRoLa project team in setting up the integrated modelling system.

Topics: - Are sugar price rises on the horizon? - Will biofuels continue to push soft commodity prices? - Brazil – The agriculture powerhouse - Why we diversified into soft commodities - an investor's view - An outlook for food and commodity prices - Trends in soft commodity prices and...

The seminar seeks contributions discussing both the origin of risks and income fluctuation in agriculture as well as possible solutions. The intention is to discuss the appropriate mix of policy and private risk management instruments and their joint impact on farm-level risk and income...

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a platform for presenting newly developed and/or applied modelling approaches and tools for impact assessment of agricultural and rural development policies. Taking into account the complexity of agricultural and rural development policies, models can...

Das Nachfragepotenzial von mehr als einer Milliarde Konsumenten in China und Russland ergibt auf den ersten Blick ein schier unendliches Absatzpotenzial. Aber während sich in den urbanen Zentren kaufkräftige Bevölkerungsschichten entwickeln, herrscht in ländlichen Gegenden bittere Armut....

Topics: - Marketing chains and food quality management - Co-existence of GMO production and conventional agriculture - Participation, co-operatives and producer groups - Land markets, access to credit, farm planning and financing - Agricultural labour - Environmental monitoring, natural resource...